Adjustable dumbbell

• US 7,413,533 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2006
• Issued: 08/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Asia Regent Limited
• Original Assignee: ASAI Regent Limited
• Inventors: Lin, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh; Loan H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DURCIK, RYAN D
• Application Number:
  US11/350,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20070184945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 923 Days
• Field of Search: 482106-108
• US Class Current: 482/108
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00065 by increasing or reducing the number of resistance units
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/075 with variable weights , e.g. weight systems with weight selecting means for bar-bells or dumb-bells

Abstract

An adjustable dumbbell includes a shaft provided with left- and right-handed threads, two tubes sleeved around and engaging threadedly and respectively the left- and right-handed threads, a hollow grip rod sleeved on the tubes, two support units each having upper and lower support seats disposed above and below one of the tubes, and a plurality of weights each having an engaging hole section engageable with a corresponding tube. Two adjustment knob units are respectively connected to two connecting ends of the shaft to turn the shaft and to thereby move the tubes in opposite directions towards or away from the connecting ends. Each tube is movable between the support seats to selectively engage one or more engaging hole sections of the weights.

Claims

1. An adjustable dumbbell comprising:

a shaft including two opposite connecting ends, an intermediate portion between said connecting ends, and left- and right-handed threads that are formed on said intermediate portion and that are axially spaced apart from each other;

two tubes sleeved around and engaging threadedly and respectively said left- and right-handed threads;

a hollow grip rod sleeved on said tubes and having two opposite engaging portions;

two support units each having upper and lower support seats disposed above and below one of said tubes, said upper and lower support seats including inner end faces respectively connected to said engaging portions, outer end faces opposite to said inner end faces, and intermediate sections each interconnecting one of said inner end faces and one of said outer end faces and each provided with a plurality of spaced-apart spacers;

two sets of weights, said weights in each set straddling said upper and lower support seats of one of said support units and being spaced apart from each other by said spacers, each of said weights including a straddling hole that has an engaging hole section engageable with a corresponding one of said tubes; and

two adjustment knob units respectively connected to said connecting ends of said shaft to turn said shaft relative to said grip rod and to thereby move said tubes axially of said shaft in opposite directions towards or away from said connecting ends;

each of said tubes being movable between said upper and lower support seats of one of said support units to selectively engage one or more of said engaging hole sections of said weights.

2. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 1, further comprising two first covers sleeved slidably and respectively on said tubes and connected respectively to said engaging portions of said grip rod, said inner end faces of said upper and lower support seats of one of said support units being respectively connected to said first covers.

3. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 1, wherein each of said adjustment knob units includes a second cover sleeved on one of said connecting ends of said shaft and connected to said outer end faces of said upper and lower support seats of one of said support units, and a cap receiving said second cover and connected to said one of said connecting ends, said second cover having an inner face abutting against said outer end faces of said upper and lower support seats of one of said support units, and an outer face opposite to said inner face.

4. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 3, wherein said second cover further has a positioning hole formed in said outer face of said second cover and radially offset from said shaft, said cap including a spring-loaded detent mounted on said cap and biased to engage resiliently said positioning hole.

5. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 3, wherein each of said adjustment knob units further includes a slot provided in said cap, said shaft further including two eccentric projections projecting outwardly, axially, and respectively from end faces of said connecting ends of said shaft and fitted respectively into said slots in said adjustment knob units.

6. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 1, wherein the distance between two adjacent ones of said spacers is equal to one pitch of said left- and right-handed threads.

7. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 1, wherein each of said tubes includes two diametrically opposed guide pins, said upper and lower support seats of each of said support units further including axially extending guide grooves, respectively, for receiving slidably and respectively said guide pins.

8. The adjustable dumbbell of claim 1, wherein said intermediate portion of said shaft is larger in diameter than said connecting ends, said shaft further including two shoulder portions each defined between said intermediate portion and a corresponding one of said connecting ends, said shoulder portions respectively a butting against said second covers.